Recorded Lectures

A quick intro to the course "Product Lifecycle Management" at Oakland University.

Systems Thinking, The Beer Game, Managing Complexity, and scandalous product failures at GM and Boeing.

Chapter-long articles on scandalous failures in the GM Ignition Switch and the Boeing 737 Max.

This is the opening lecture of my course in Product Lifecycle Management, and I make the case that we must look at systems far larger...

How we think of product lifecycles has changed dramatically over the past few decades. These videos cover a brief history.

How will pandemics and climate change impact product lifecycles?

Briefly discusses, and provides links to, SE tools like SysML, MBSE and Agile.

Decomposition Creates Dysfunction, and leads to scandalous products. We need to fix Systems Engineering.

For centuries, humans have used technology to reinforce growth, to great effect, but now that growth is limited by it's own success.

A bottleneck of the future of manufacturing is the lack of a highly-skilled workforce

Perception of Value, Disruptive Innovation and the "Job to be Done" by a product.

Change is Painful, the Status Quo seems efficient, and the difference between Practices and Processes